Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

The superficiality of many is a result of deep fears. It takes spare time to think things out; it takes free time to mature. People in a hurry may not think well or mature well. The next best is a state of perpetual puerility.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.